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(NEW YORK, NY) — In her new memoir, Traci Lords recalls that her centerfold in Penthouse at age 15 was overshadowed and how an FBI raid that ended her career in adult films “saved my life.”
In her autobiography “Underneath it All,” Lords, 34, says she used a fake ID to pose for the magazine – in the same 1984 issue with nude photos of Vanessa L. Williams, who was forced to resign her title as Miss America.
“The ID said I was 22 or 23 and of course I had a made-up name and a fake ID and the whole thing, but I look like a kid,” Lords told AP Radio in an interview Thursday.
Lords, who made dozens of adult films while a teenager, remembers subsequently being happy about an FBI raid on her apartment.
“I’m really glad that they did what they did,” she said. “I perhaps would have liked them to have done it in a different way because it wasn’t right they took me out of bed half-naked and took me downtown.
“But ultimately, they saved my life so I’m really glad that that happened because I have no doubt in my mind that I would have ultimately ended up OD’d dead someplace and I would’ve been another statistic.”
The actress instead got mainstream film and TV roles, most notably on Fox’s “Melrose Place.”
